December is indeed a season of giving. As a way of extending gratitude, mobile technology brand OPPO is giving away 100 units of F1s to lucky Facebook users who will participate in the National Selfie Day Contest.

Information is one of the lifelines of human civilization. Its availability dictates our capacity to efficiently grow our businesses and economies, to plug into a globalized world, and to deliver the right services to the people who need it most. It has always been so incredibly vital that I am told that during the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey cut the Hong Kong-Manila telegraph cable to deny the Spanish communications with the outside world.